Oscar Swartz reports. Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of contributory copyright infringement, and each
"Stay calm — Nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing whatsoever. This is just a theater for the media."
In a Swedish Supreme Court decision from 1963, he noted, a defendant who held a friend's coat while the friend beat someone up was considered culpable.
Prepare for some serious escalation on both sides of the file sharing issue. This doesn't end the debate, it just upgrades the weapons on both sides. It's going to be ugly, and neither side is totally in the right. Try not to let yourself become a legal casualty.
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